WITCH HUNTS EVERYWHERE

A Feminist Re-Mapping of Misogyny and Contemporary Anti-Witch Violence

Journal of Gender Studies: Special issue on contemporary feminist reinterpretation of witch hunts, 2026
Special issue co-editors Soma Chaudhuri (chaudh30@msu.edu) and Jane Ward (janew@ucsb.edu)

In this special issue, we present 6 papers from intersectional and interdisciplinary queer and feminist scholars across the globe, whose writings reinterprets the stigma, violence and brutality surrounding the varied manifestations of global feminist power that fall under the banner of the witch (real, perceived; labelled; reclaimed).

Read the Introduction to the special issue here